On Tue, 30 May 2000, allisonp wrote:
> Done! the OS was never mixed with data on CPM disks until CPM3 and
> CPM86.
>
> the system booted off OS specific tracks and DATA was never stored there
> and SYSTEM was never stored on DATA tracks. This applies to CP/M
> {1.3, 1.4, 2.0, 2.2} explicitly and many others as well.
Yes, same with the Apple ][ pretty much, although you could free up some
sectors on track 2 for data use if desired on some versions of DOS.
Anyway, I don't know what the issue is about. The fact is we aren't
archiving specific sections of the diskette but rather the entire diskette
as a whole. Richard, as usual, invented a complexity in order to have
something to argue around.
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